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...Japan renounces its claims to Formosa (held by the Chinese Nationalists), the Kurile Islands and South Sakhalin (Rus sia got both at Yalta), the 623 formerly mandated islands of the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall chain (now controlled by the U.S. under U.N. trusteeship), and the Bonin and Ryukyu Islands, including B-29 base Okinawa (now occupied...
...Herr Goebbels. The Soviet Academy of Sciences decided to thoroughly Russianize the Russian language, which is liberally endowed with words borrowed from French, German and English (samples: khuligan-hooligan, trolleibus-trolley bus, stend-stand. "In most cases," said Academician A. M. Terpigorev, "these foreign words can be substituted by Rus sian words ... A scientific terminology cluttered with foreign words is intolerable." While the Russian language was going nationalist, it was also going imperialist...
Along the way, Gunther gleaned many a curious fact. The annual per capita Coca-Cola consumption in New Orleans is 120 bottles; in New York City, six bottles. The names of the New England towns of Berlin, Calais, Paris and Peru are locally pronounced Berlin, Callus, Pay-rus, Pee-ru. Los Angeles ("Iowa with palms") is the world's second largest Mexican city...
Revolutionary departures for a French Bill of Rights were economic guarantees (following the pattern of the Soviet Rus sian Constitution): the right of every citizen to a job, to a livelihood if he is incapacitated and cannot work, to private property acquired "through work and savings." But private property is also curbed: "every undertaking whose exploitation has, or acquires, the character of a public service or of a monopoly in fact must become the property of the community." With this provision, nationalization of key industries is constitutionally sanctioned...
...British official in Delhi last week said, "This is the most important British diplomatic effort of the century," he had in mind the danger that a failure to settle the Indian problem would keep the whole East in turmoil and disturb international relations throughout the world by presenting Rus sia with an opportunity to increase her influence among Asia's people...